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today let’s talk about the unique

benefits of magnesium glycinate now as

you may know already magnesium is

involved in over 300 different enzymes

including making energy as ATP including

all sorts of things with your muscles

and the nervous system as well as your

DNA but it’s important to understand

that magnesium comes in a lot of

different forms so if we look at what

magnesium glycinate really is it’s

really a combination of magnesium and

the amino acid glycine together combined

and when you combine those you get a

much better absorption in the intestine

versus using a type of magnesium that’s

not well absorbed like magnesium oxide

or sulfate or carbonate or even

magnesium hydroxide those are all poorly

absorbed but other forms like magnesium

glycinate are very easily absorbed and

magnesium glycinate is very gentle on

your stomach it won’t cause the diarrhea

that some other forms can create like

magnesium citrate so it has a much

lesser laxative effect it’s good for

overall relaxation

muscle relaxation especially at night

preventing cramps so it’s really good

for Sleep improving insomnia and it also

is good for improving energy now it’s

not going to keep you up at night but

it’s going to allow you to get into a

much deeper sleep to have energy during

the day magnesium glycinate also has an

effect as a vasodilator so it’s really

good for blood pressure it’s also good

to help regulate calcium and prevent

calcium from accumulating because

magnesium and calcium work together and

since it’s involved with calcium it can

also reduce the risk of kidney stones

and it’s also been known to help

increase insulin sensitivity to help

blood sugars and people that have

problems with insulin resistance which

could even be a pre-diabetic or even a

diabetic magnesium glycinate also has

been known to help people with migraine

headaches and states of lower mood like

depression and anxiety so it’s a really

good form of magnesium that overall

helps reduce stress now if you get this

as a supplement I would try to get one

that also has a vitamin D3 and B6

because both of those nutrients will

help the absorption even more and

sometimes people have a question of

what’s the difference between this

magnesium glycinate versus magnesium bis

glycinate well there is no difference

they’re this exact same supplement so by

adding that little bisque behind the

name does not change the chemistry at

all now since we mentioned magnesium

citrate I will say that’s a really good

one for leg cramps at night it’s a good

one for stress it’s a good one for blood

pressure but magnesium citrate can

create a laxative effect so it might be

better for people that have a tendency

to be more constipated but if you

compare the two magnesium glycinate is

just a little bit better for various

reasons it won’t create a laxative

effect and magnesium glycinate is not

dependent on the pH in other words you

can take it on an empty stomach or with

food you don’t even need a strong

stomach acid to absorb it which is

unique because most minerals need that

strong stomach acid so as people get

older and they lose their stomach acid

they’re not going to absorb minerals but

if you take magnesium in the glycinate

form it will be absorbed regardless of

the pH of your stomach now the best time

to take this form of magnesium would be

right before bed because it’s going to

help you sleep it’s going to relax you

it’s going to prevent those leg cramps

however if you take it to other parts of

the day it’s not going to necessarily

make you tired it’s going to just make

you feel more relaxed should you take in

an empty stomach it doesn’t really

matter you can take it with meals or

without now the normal dose I would

recommend would be anywhere between a

hundred milligrams to 400 milligrams per

day and that would depend on what kind

of problems are you trying to solve do

you have severe muscle cramps let’s say

you have severe high blood pressure or

you have sleeping problems well just

take a little bit more but if you don’t

take a little bit less like I said

before magnesium glycinate is a

combination of magnesium and glycine so

now let’s talk about the benefits of

glycine it creates a calming effect it

will help you sleep it helps the

neurotransmitters in your brain thereby

increasing cognitive function it’s even

good for collagen support and blood

sugar control and sometimes it’s used as

an anti-inflammatory because it can help

get rid of inflammation it can even help

improve bile production okay which can

help your absorption especially of fats

it’s also related to increasing energy

just like magnesium so you just might

find that your energy starts to increase

over a period of time and lastly it’s a

precursor for something called

glutathione to help you detoxify now

another form of magnesium that a lot of

people are taking is called magnesium L3

and 8. that specific type of magnesium

is a bit more expensive but it’s a

little bit better for your brain so if

you’re trying to take magnesium for more

cognitive improvements then that would

be the form that I would recommend are

there any side effects for magnesium

glycinate and there’s really only two

that I found and one would be low blood

pressure but you’d have to take a lot of

it over a period of time and you might

end up with a lower amount of blood

pressure so this might be good for

someone with high blood pressure but

it’s not going to be significant it just

might be a little bit lower than it

should which might be a good thing

because it causes this vasodilation

effect which actually will increase

circulation the other thing about

magnesium glycinate is it does tend to

interfere with certain medications so

you want to check with your doctor it

can inhibit the function or the

effectiveness of certain medications but

as far as the laxative effect it’s not

going to create much of a laxative

effect as other types of magnesium but

that also depends on your dosage if

you’re taking a lot of it with all this

magnesium from the food and maybe in

other supplements it could contribute to

more of a diarrhea situation in which

case you’re going to have to kind of

reduce the dosage from one of your

supplements or this one specifically now

where do we get magnesium from the diet

primarily it is involved in chlorophyll

it’s at the heart of the chlorophyll

molecule that’s that green stuff in

Plants as in leafy green vegetables the

chemistry of this green chlorophyll is

very similar to the chemistry of our own

blood but with some very unique

differences so with chlorophyll we have

this magnesium that tends to be on the

green side and then with blood we have

iron which is on the red side but one of

the best sources of magnesium is just by

consuming enough leafy greens as in

salads and other leafy greens so even if

you took three cups of dark leafy green

vegetables every single day you would

probably get the amounts of magnesium

you would need as the recommended

amounts

but of course you have to realize that

you’re not going to absorb a hundred

percent of that it’s going to be a

portion of that so you might need to

have more but my point is that the rdas

for magnesium for men is roughly about

420 and for women is about 320. that’s

just the amount of magnesium that you

need to prevent a deficiency but not

necessarily the therapeutic dosage that

you might need if you have a severe

imbalance

and one of the problems with magnesium

as far as testing it in the blood goes

is you’re not going to be able to really

detect a magnesium deficiency because

the majority I’m talking about 99 of all

the Magnesium is inside the cell not

outside the cell in the blood so a blood

test is not going to give you a lot of

information you’d want to do what’s

called an intracellular magnesium test

and I will put a link down below for

that information magnesium is also in

other Foods as well it’s in fish it’s in

nuts like cashews so I hope you now know

more about this magnesium glycinate it’s

a fascinating supplement that has huge

benefits and there’s a lot more to know

about magnesium if you have not seen my

other video of magnesium I put that up

right here check it out